dakota and montana, the big cities are not your chicago, but los angeles and houston and dallas and other places. we are in a kind of dark way a unique society in terms of the place of violence in american life and especially the place of guns. now what you should know something about me. i've grown up with guns. akamai first gun when i was 10 years old. it was next written nearly import ritual for me for my father to give him a first 22 it's been my family and long, long time. hunting is a very important passage for me in the continues this day. i have a collection of guns in their ancient montana were rahm has been. i'm not a big game hunter, but they have guns that can be in that. i'm primarily what they call a shotgun or, a bird hunter. you eat what you kill it when you find them, shoot them. but in the midst of the culture a long, long time and i find myself in the journalistic role at the intersection in america because i know the kinds of weapons were talking about and i also know the consequences of pulling the trigger and what happens when you do. moreover, when i left the